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kramer. hello, kramer. there are gloves in the glove compartment. hold on a second. brown ones?ah. could you mail those to me? or bring them by. it's 129 west 81st street. o.k. thanks a lot. here's jerry. gloves. hello. jerry. yeah. let me ask you a question. how do you cross those wires? i didn't cross wires. the keys were in it. sid left the keys in the car. drive carefully. sure. when's was your last tune-up? yeah. sid left the keys in the car. who's sid? parks cars on the block. he moves them so you don't get a ticket. you pay him for that? yeah. 50 bucks a month. who does he do that for? 40, 50 cars. he works three hours a day. he makes a fortune. he's been doing that for years, right, jerry? could anybody do that? sid, what happened? i'm sorry. maybe i'm getting too old for this stuff. you left the keys in the car? they're making that woody allen movie on the block-- trucks everywhere-- when i saw him, i must've gotten a little distracted. i'm in that movie. you're what? i'm an extra. how'd you get that? i was watching them film, and some guy asked me. out of the clear blu

stay with kramer. >> coming up, healthy headlines?iggest biotech names are showing off the newest in medical innovations this week and kramer has his eye on a few drugmakers that could provide the best medicine for your portfolio. find out what's at the top of jim's list, just ahead. now, that's what i call a test drive. silverado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ] i'll take it. [ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. now during chevy truck month, get 0% apr financing for 60 months or trade up to get the 2012 chevy silverado all-star edition with a total value of $8,000. hurry in before they're all gone! >>> it is time for the lightning round. are you ready? let's start with marvin in new york. >> jim, bouillon from the windy city of new york. >> sweep. >> lulu lemon. >> i've got to tell you, even i think of the great mickey drexler from j. crew thinks that lulu lemon is a well-run company. i want to go to sam in connecticut. >>. >> mr. cramer, thank you for

kramer calls this a living logo. (laughter) the first one since they had to put down the m.g.m. lion after he ate those munchkins. (laughter) and in a the "u.s.a. today" exclusive, i learned that the "u.s.a. today's" new logo will be an info graphic that changes with the news, containing a photo or image that represents key stories of the day. like this one in the money section, the shopping cart. right there, okay? (laughter) in the life section, this kind of round leaf right there and for sports, this red dot wearing a cowboy hat which i'm gonna say represents the sport of tomato rodeo. (laughter) i think. i don't know. but from now on, when news breaks that's circular in nature the "u.s.a. today" will be all over it, folks. whether it be about planets, tractor tires, the wheel of fortune, pizzas, bagels, pizza bagels or cee-lo green's head. (laughter) although-- (applause). although if spongebob squarepants ever chokes on a dorito at the pentagon-- (laughter). -- you won't read about it in the "u.s.a. today." (laughter) so bravo, the "u.s.a. today" for your bold redesign wher

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. >> kramer said. we condemn everyone a healthier life.uations of the green business. the green economy accounts for 9% of the british economy. that is the same as the finance industry. 5% growth rate every year year on year. one-third of the growth in the u.k. came from grain industry. -- green industry. >> if we spend a lot on subsidies, we will get growth in those industries. if he spent a lot of money on building wind turbines, you'll get employment in erecting wind turbines and less in gas turbines. of >> will have to leave it there for the time being. >> hang on. i want to present the idea we should impoverished the people of kenya by stopping trading with them. and manifestly kroll -- >> i have to stop it there. >> that was jeremy paxman seeking to peter and natalie. that is all for us for this week. goodbye.

one woman was inside when the man entered the kramer and bucknell law office on taylor street near alameda. he appeared distraught. the woman was able to text someone about what was going on and that person who she texted called 911. officers arrived and surrounded the building, the woman was allowed to leave the office. a few minutes later the man surrendered to police. >> i don't think anybody would feel threatened if they saw someone acting erratically in front of them. sweating profusely, pacing back and forth and breathing heavily. that's behavior that cries out for investigation. >> the woman says she did recognize the man as someone who had been there before. >>> the 11-year-old boy shot last week when a barrage of bullets pierced his family's home walked back into that very house this afternoon. he spent the last six days in the hospital and still has a lot of healing ahead of him. not only physical healing, but emotional too. >> that's right, jessica. luis hernandez has some physical therapy ahead of him, it's unclear when he'll be well enough emotionally and physically to return

. >> david, jim kramer.hen i look at your numbers i'm trying to figure out, is month to month the precursor to tell me next year this is where i should be buying if i'm thinking about buying a home? >> well, i think you have to certainly look at the year-over-year numbers. the figures we have are not seasonally adjusted in the headline. and we are moving into a seasonably slow period coming up. so we will probably see home prices, so smaller gains and an occasional decline in one city or another over the next few months. that's purely the seasonal factor, but the trend, i think, that is turned and is shown by the fact that 15 of the 20 are up year over year. and that says to me the housing has really come back and it will provide some stimulus for the economy. >> david, still a lot of concern over lending standards in this country, if you're trying to get a mortgage, it is not easy. critics of the white house say they have not done enough for those under water do. you think the easy fruit, the low-hanging fr

oh, is kramer still there? i didn't know that.creasing their acreage by 50% in the region. jim knows continental resource is probably the biggest real estate holder in the balkan that is clr, but exxon mobil is flat on the news. the big boys are taking notice on what's going on in north dakota. >>> thank you very much. meanwhile, gold is retreated from the six-and-a-half-year high today. joining us is frank holmes, ceo and cio. frank, good morning. >> good morning. >> characterize this for us, is this going to be a reversal with some duration? >> a short-term is easy to correct because of the spectacular move when you look at statistics of markets over the past 20 to 60 trading days. the last time i was on the program june the 14th gold was up 11% from that level. on a 12-month rolling basis, gold looks like it could do over $2,000. when we have a rising monetary base like we have in the u.s. and you have some in europe, which you can see a high correlation of yours. and most of this has already been done in japan, the u.s. and ja

. >>> i'm jim kramer, see you tomorrow? >> if we can't fight the war in afghanistan properly, we should get out more. this is "the kudlow report". mitt romn mitt romney defends his committ comments. romney's completely different vision is create free enter price society policy. more people working and more entrepreneurship. romney continues to defend that position. we are going to talk to the senior advisor to the campaign and we'll argue status entitlement versus free market opportunity. and an audio tape allegedly surfaces of barack obama saying he believes in redistribution. but that is no secrecresecret. and we will go live to libya. this is about a failed obama foreign policy. first up, breaking news chicago teachers suspend strike classes are scheduled to resume tomorrow. rahama, thank you. >> moments ago after seven days on strike. chicago teachers voted with an 98% to 2% to suspend their walkout and go back to work. in the nation's largest school district. some of the major issues include a 7% salary are increase ov

today at kramer middle school the company will announce an expansion of the program.he project allows family who qualify for reduced price school lunches to get broadband internet along with training. families also qualify with a voucher -- for a voucher to buy a computer. >>> the nationals haven't even started the playoffs yet but metro is going to stay open late tonight. coming up. >>> plus a virginia boy battling a life threatening disease is taking a dream vacation this week. we'll be back >>> welcome back. 5:37. your weather first a chilly start out there. there are 40s in many of the suburbs once again this morning under partly cloudy sky. >> a good looking monday, you'll need a jacket though half the day. sunshine, 65 degrees at lunch time. we'll try it make a run toward 70. still in the mid-60s. i'll be back in a few minutes with your 7-day forecast. >>> here's what it looks like on the west side of town. crossing the potomac river, traffic moving well between 270 and tyson's corner. no issues to report. northbound prince william parkway closed still with an a

larry kramer is a case in point. some people say he is one, politics is more important to him in than good prose, but is very committed to politics. tony kushner, great american playwright, very politically committed. with these men being as political as they are, i don't >> would these men be asiden. political as they were otherwise? i don't know. but politics are a major part ot their identity. vie, gods >> how close is the father of frankenstein, your novel, to the movie? >> it is very close. the movie is very faithful to my book. it includes my best dialogue.ap it leaves out my bad dialogue. [laughter] i was so happy with that movie.. he leaned heavily on my book and i could not be happier. >> host: dennis, seattle, welcome to our show. >> caller: hello, christopher, v know you couldn't covernot everybody, but james purdy wasie not included. he wrote for 50 or 60 years of m the gay movement. can you speak about him briefly, please. >> i did leave him out. the book includes, like i said, it took only 12 writers an

they beat paula kramer and that's the longest in tour history.s a new standard across the pond. 36-hole day due to inclement weather and ends with a beautiful sunset. from the beach on 16. stops two feet from the pin. makes a little sandy birdie and then on 18 taps in to win her second british open title. she was the only player under par setting a record with nine strokes. her second win in seven days. nascar, the race for the sprint cup and somebody tell travis he has a carjack under his car. he comes out of pit row ahead of jimmy johnson and takes the lead. johnson's crew chief complained about possible cheating, but when it was all said and done he holds off johnson and claimed the checkered flag and wins the guy co 400. 21-9 in this week's poll. this abc7 sports report is brought to you by river rock casino. jim harbaugh reminds me of bill walsh. he makes every roll just as important as everybody on that team no matter what your roll. i used to sit on the bench and warm the aluminum for joe montana when he came off. that role was just as imp

they beat paula kramer and that's the longest in tour history.he sets a new standard across the pond. 36-hole day due to inclement weather and ends with a beautiful sunset. from the beach on 16. stops two feet from the pin. makes a little sandy birdie and then on 18 taps in to win her second british open title. she was the only player under par setting a record with nine strokes. her second win in seven days. nascar, the race for the sprint cup and somebody tell travis he has a carjack under his car. he comes out of pit row ahead of jimmy johnson and takes the lead. johnson's crew chief complained about possible cheating, but when it was all said and done he holds off johnson and claimed the checkered flag and wins the guy co 400. 21-9 in this week's poll. this abc7 sports report is brought to you by river rock casino. jim harbaugh reminds me of bill walsh. he makes every roll just as important as everybody on that team no matter what your roll. i used to sit on the bench and warm the aluminum for joe montana when he came off. that role was just

as you may have heard this week, jim kramer came out and said, his father who is a retired vet wouldn'te able to vote. the 760,000 people that they say don't have it won't get it. >> thank you, judith browne dianis in washington, d.c. >>> up next, who is the money and the power behind these efforts? [ thunder crashes ] [ male announcer ] if you think all batteries are the same... consider this: when the unexpected happens, there's one brand of battery more emergency workers trust in their maglites: duracell. one reason: duralock power preserve. it locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. guaranteed. so, whether it's 10 years' of life's sunny days... or... the occasional stormy one... trust goes a long way. duracell with duralock. trusted everywhere. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ >>> we are back with this week in voter

. >>> up next kramer holds a fashion show to find the retail stocks who had the right look.ing down on the energy play for real value. >>> a boost as three separate firms raise. lulu is up 65% year to date. is it back? erica, great to have you with us. you point out aptly that q 3 was higher solidly. what is the next catalyst to bring it to the price target that you have? >> the story will unfold through the back half of the year. i think everyone is looking forward to the holidays. the company really highlighted that they have a lot of innovation coming and the products should look really good. >> in terms of the macroeconomic environment is there anything to cause concern about the lulu story or is this a stock that is immune? >> the fiscal cliff and a pullback in spending would impact the stock. they have a lot of drivers that are beyond that. they have a ton of white space. they are still growing brand awareness and extending the product line. so the stock would definitely be impacted but they have other organic drivers to help limit the pull back. >> it is a name i have

. >> kramer is on the ground fining the homegrown bulls ready to run. >> this is about made here.about made in america and made great. >> "mad money" with jim cramer weeknights 6 p.m./11 p.m. eastern. l year for the big race in chicago, but i can only afford one trip. and i just found out my best friend is getting married in l.a. there's no way i'm missing that. then i heard about hotwire and i realized i could actually afford both trips. see, when really nice hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them. so i got my four-star hotels for half-price! >> men: ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com >> announcer: save big on car rentals too, from $12.95 a day. why should golfers take 5-hour energy? playing golf all day can make you tired. i've been taking the product for about a year. and, after taking 5-hour energy, i feel more energized. i have more energy. you know, i'm not tired anymore after taking it. i was skeptical but i decided one day i'd try it. 5-hour energy works fast. i have the energy to get through a meeting, to get through a workout. it keeps me alert for a long per

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kramer is running that in usa today. he's money. >> let's go to mike in california. >> yo, mr.aller: hov, the stock not the car pool lane what do you think? >> stick with the car pool lane. >> let's go to kenny in washington. kenny? >> caller: boo-yah jim from the pacific northwest. >> oh, man, good to have you on the show, pal. >> caller: thanks, man, how do you feel about the fundamental path of conoco phillips? >> i was a little disappointed in the growth there. it's just okay. chevron is cheaper because it has more growth. i want to go to bill in connecticut. bill? >> caller: boo-yah jim. my stock is tenaris, tn. >> you know, it's not bad. >> you know, tenaris. it's not bad. let's go shawn in new york. >> let's go giants! >> why do you come into my house and hurt me? why do you do that? why do you do that? i'm going to hate your stock, i'm going to hate on your stock. >> caller: my question is about siri, i'm about to pull the trigger, what are your thoughts? >> i think i would rather own siri. i thought the comments about -- the comments about mel, mel come on the show and

[applause] >> i had a text from a friend the other day, a display at kramer books where monica lewinsky bought her book of poetry. [laughter] forgive me, i'm trying to turn what i want to say into a question, so maybe i'll just end with that. i teach at an elementary school that feeds into reagan, um, and we live in a blue oasis in an extremely red state, and it's an election year. if you really take a look at the candidates and just at any level and look at those who are purely anti-intellectual, philistine, especially when it comes to science which is a real area of concern, um, there is a way that we can support our schools, and i'm going to end with the question of, who are you going to vote for? [laughter] [applause] >> he said it wasn't a question, we don't have to answer it. >> i'm actually a student from ohio. i'm intern here in austin, this is my first time being here, but i had two questions, one for mr. brick and the other for mr. gars saw. mr. brick, was there a particular event that sparked your decision to write this book, and the second for ms. garza, what advice do you h

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. >>> after news taxpayers are in kramer's going to the man behind the government sale.l fund counter part. both funds are overseen by bill gross. with a break down managing director for index publications. we have addressed this before and have come to the conclusion that it is because it is smaller and more nimable. it looks like that divergence in outperformance is getting smaller as time goes on. what is behind that? >> a lot of people are saying the fund has grown. it is about $2.5 billion now and too big. the total return mutual fund is a quarter of a trillion dollars. that is big. $2.5 billion is small change. the mutual fund has caught up with the epf. if you think about bill gross's perspective he decides he wants to get out of mexico. he can sell that by the end of the day. he might have a $20 billion position in the mutual fund. you are going to see them track closer until he has a big change of mind and then you will see the portfolio shift. >> was there bigger performance early on and a narrow slice is that it came closer. >> it is outperformed by about 3 or

paula kramer grew up in pleasanton and got rich and moved to florida she used to be on the air here alle but now she does not return our calls! [laughter] >> and a matter what she has victory. sh fasti--shin a winner. and this guy was a winner to get the big paydays you have to be very exciting. chad dawson could not take any more with a andre ward and some people calling him some of the buggest.. to see andre ward and michael jordan will say that he will take the money but he does not want to work much more any more. partial owner of the bobcats but also no did not want to the general manager. he cannot be scouting players when he is as famous as he is. they will fly someone else out to do the grunt work. >> the arkansas fight song is a bit unusual >> the arkansas fight song. they were upset with louisiana, and monroe. trying to cheer them up with this song. >> there is no where in the world than i would rather be than... >> it is kind of cute. but i do not know about that choice of costume. and she has a good voice. got a bit different. we will see you at 8:00 p.m. . >>> it's time to

kevin kramer, statewide office holder on the republican side, had to basically overthrow the state republicanarty's pick in order to win the primary with a lot of tea party support. the republican nominee against a former state rep on the democratic side, very strong candidate. very, very scrappy democratic tradition, so that's going to be an interesting race to follow as well. >> all right. jennifer, david, thank you very much. thank you to everybody who showed up. thank you to our c-span viewers. really appreciate it. don't forget to come back for all of national journal's events throughout the next couple of days. thanks again. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> the national journal hosts another daily briefing this morning at 9:30 eastern. they'll talk to a panel of campaign managers and political strategists. you can watch it live here on c-span as part of our live convention coverage from charlotte, north carolina. coming up next -- coverage of the 202 presidential race. first lady michelle obama speaks to hispanic delegates in charlotte, north carolina. then las

. >> in 1970 after repeated attempts to get jack kramer to increase women's prize money, rosie and billyt the women could have ever made. that really put women's tennis on the map. >> they became the original nine and signed one dollar contracts and started what would become the virginia slims tour, a lucrative tour that brought women's tennis into the mainstream. we were scared. sometimes you have to have that leap of faith. rosie was right there persuading people to listen. we have this idea. it's going to work. rosie did such a great job. >> you have given so much to tennis, what has tennis given you? >> tennis has given me my life, really who i am. like our generation we never made enough money we could say. this generation can retire. i've gotten a lot out of it. tennis is who i am. ♪ >> great job. talk about giving back. rosie still coaches and works with kids in the palm springs area. they have come a long way in terms of supporting women's tennis. they named the site of the u.s. tennis open after billy jean king. >>> next week the remarkable a senior researcher who is using appli

kevin kramer, a republican, had to basically overthrow the state republican party picked in order to win the primary with a lot of tea party support. he is the republican nominee against a former state representative on the democratic side, a strong candidate who is well-connected in the state, a very scrappy democratic tradition. that will be an interesting race to follow as well. >> jennifer and david, thanks very much. thank you to everybody showed up and if thank you to our c-span viewers. don't forget to come back for all of our events throughout the next couple days. >> that was the national journal's daily political briefing. we will be there live again tomorrow. and throughout the democratic convention. it wraps up tomorrow. there is a live picture inside the time warner cable arena. tonight the convention begins at 5:00 p.m. by the way, thursday night it will also be held in the time warner cable arena because of concerns about the weather. the democratic national convention has canceled plans to move thursday night to the bank of america football stadium. as we continue our

. >>> let's get down to the new york stock exchange where jim kramer is joining us now.f, did you think, wow, it's 2012, they are talking about 2015, it is a long business that they take it in a long viewpoint, but did it make you wonder where commodity prices would be in 2015? >> these companies put the five-year outlooks and have to revise them periodically. the near term didn't sound so good for caterpillar, but if you go through page by page what they are saying, they are saying, we are not as bad a company we used to be. even with the not so rosy worldwide forecast, we are still going to make a lot of money. it was not nearly as negative as diller's comments about new jersey. which stunned me. >> i think barry might have thought, and when you're on a remote like that, i think he might have thought i was in break, which is a trick i use. hey, barry, it sounds like we are off and you get some of the best answers, but wasn't that great? he's been to teterboro. >> i know that look was substantive and said facebook is good. but i'm sitting there saying, i live in new jer

what about the cry in smackdown, kramer, come on., i recommend any chinese stocks, but that is a legitimate asset. you had four things yesterday. mike sutherland came on as the ceo of joy global as plain as plain can be and said for the last two months electricity stabilized after a aheads you decline and then the freight jumped on monday. am i look shunting for green shoots sn i'm look shunting for something contra to the idea of everything bad to china. the real estate market we were first concerned about is still sort of bubbling along f you will. this is a weak number. as their company gets more service oriented as opposed to manufacturing it is still a bad number. china is going to grow by 30% plus gdp. this economy is hooked on steroids and suddenly now they are all firing and i'm mix shunting metaphors, but there are a lot of things going forward and there's questions about leaders for the first time. we are see shunting real political issues for the first time in a long time. zbl you did just agree on the same point. jim, you

the author is ann kramer, a harvard business review contributor.r being with us. >> great to be here. >> this is interesting. you have a start-up, you go into almost like a hive, incubator type environment and you spent time in one in new york city. >> exactly. >> what is it like? >> it is fantastic. my expectation was i would go in and it would be 20 somethings. it is not the case. it is people who are seasoned professionals, former bankers, ad executives all of whom said there is no more security. there is no more protection in my job. i need something to take care of myself so they go to these crab active dynamic spaces. >> if you're working on your own thing, what value is there in sharing anything with anyone else? what benefits do you get other than the physical space of the place to work? >> it creates a sort of collaborative network. there is a soberologist at princeton who has done research around entrepreneurs and innovation and what he found is the broudser your network of context the more innovation you will actually have. in normal com

let's get kramers mad dash ahead of the market open.sset sale at the chesapeake. >> they sold $6.9 million in assets to dutch. if you're a portfolio matcher, carl, you never want to sell your winners, define your losers. these were premium assets. i want to hear from the ceo they're not taking their seed corn. i like those assets they got rid of. oil because oil is working here. maybe it's good for the preferred. i'd like to buy chesapeake preferred. not crazy about the common. >> but they had to -- >> they owed so much money but they're selling the best. look, utica, but those permean assets have been years and years of great oil ahead and sorry to see them go. but the company has to take action and they're taking it. >> you say it brings to mind a sell of kinder morgan. >> kinder morgan doesn't have a lot of natural gas and natural gas liquids. they are oil-based and that's good news. natural gas, there's a glut. we saw coal companies are hurting. utilities are switching to nat gas because of $2 level. you have to be careful -- kinder

larry kramer is a case in point.one, politics is more important to him in than good prose, but is very committed to politics. tony kushner, great american playwright, very politically committed. with these men being as political as they are, i don't know. but politics is a major part of their identity. >> how close is the father of frankenstein, your novel, to the movie, gods and monsters? >> this movie is very faithful to my book. it includes my best dialogue, i was so happy with that movie. i could not be happier. >> host: dennis from seattle, good afternoon from washington. >> i was wondering, what a great inventions in your book. i know that you couldn't cover everybody, but james purdy was not included, who wrote for like 50 or 60 years as a gay man. could you speak to him please? >> i didn't speak to him, but i did leave him out. the book is in -- well, it includes like 12 writers. the writers i needed to tell my story too, in which is kind of weave them together. then i was able to work in other writers that i